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Asthma + Lung UK Annual Report and Financial Statements 2025

Asthma + Lung UK's annual report for the year to 30 June 2025 covers its helpline, research funding, campaigning for clean air and a smoke-free generation, and its schools network. The charity saw over 21,000 enquiries to its helpline and over 3 million visits to its website, supported some 4,100 people seeking a diagnosis, signed up 200 schools to its network, and reports that £12.3 million of research investment over four years has led to £221 million of follow-on funding.

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Asthma + Lung UK is the UK's lung health charity, supporting people with asthma, COPD and other lung conditions through its helpline and information services, funding research, and campaigning for better care, clean air and a smoke-free generation. Its Annual Report and Financial Statements for the year ended 30 June 2025 record over 21,000 enquiries to the helpline team and over 3 million website visits, an expanded diagnosis support service reaching some 4,100 people (up from 1,500 the previous year), 200 schools signed up to its schools network with 41 more on the waiting list and 76 of the 200 in the three most deprived deciles, and £12.3 million of research investment over four years generating £221 million of follow-on funding. Its Life with a lung condition survey 2025 found 50% of respondents said air pollution triggered their condition and over 17% waited more than a year for a diagnosis.

Key Metrics

21,000 enquiries to the helpline team in the past year, alongside over 3 million website visits
4,100 people supported by the diagnosis helpline service in the year to 30 June 2025
£221 million of follow-on funding generated by £12.3 million of research investment over four years

Key Outcomes

  • 200 schools signed up to the schools network, 76 of them in the three most deprived deciles
  • Diagnosis support service expanded from 1,500 people in the prior year to some 4,100
  • Over 3 million visits to the website for lung health information and support

Geography

UK-Wide

Impact Snapshot
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Total income £18,180,000 and total expenditure £18,560,000 (year ended 31 December 2024, charity no. 1084958 England/Wales and SC039654 Scotland); in 2024 spent £3.8m on...
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700+ members supported through in-person visits and support calls in 2025; 697 support grants allocated in 2025 for essential items including specialist clothing, cooling...
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Largest global investment in EB research to date: multi-million-pound drug repurposing trial provisionally agreed with LifeArc partner at Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation...
£34,000 raised in 2025 winter appeal supporting families like Darcie's with specialist items, emotional support and research; 697 support grants delivered in 2025; first Members Connect event in Northern Ireland; EB Priorities Setting Partnership study completed providing global research roadmap
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22,507 households helped through RBL casework and specialist support services across 66 countries
Key Metric 2
22,600 grants given to those in need, totalling £11.8 million
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733 beneficiaries represented at tribunals, resulting in £24.5 million in War Pensions awards
1,548 new families living with dementia supported by RBL Admiral Nurses service
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3,600 blind veterans received support across the UK; 447 new blind veterans started receiving support in 2024/25
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1,598 referrals to rehabilitation services completed; 313 veterans received assistive technology training
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997 volunteers donated 26,824 hours of support; befriending service awarded Quality in Befriending Excellence — one of only 11 organisations in the UK to...
1,831 National Creative Wellbeing Project packs issued to help veterans reconnect with creativity and independence
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349,000+ people completed the Know Your Risk tool to assess their risk of type 2 diabetes in 2024
Key Metric 2
£4 million invested in 17 new research projects; total active grants portfolio worth over £45 million
Key Metric 3
32% of people completing NHS England's Path to Remission programme — which Diabetes UK campaigned for — put their type 2 diabetes into remission
Type 1 Diabetes Grand Challenge invested over £23 million in 19 projects across 161 experts from 47 institutions in 8 countries since 2022